While you are free to express your opinion under the First Amendment, taking impulsive and inappropriate action with the attempt to interfere with a contractual relationship is unacceptable… Please consider this letter a cease and desist letter. Laurie’s editor at Penguin Group USA and left a voice mail claiming that you were “deeply disturbed” by a blog posting and requesting a comment (a copy of which we have in our possession).

In addition to the above violation of law, on Tuesday, August 12, you contacted the voice mail of someone you thought to be Ms. I am sure that you could find a publisher for your work, perhaps in a volume of “ The Dummies Guide to Internet Behavior By Authors: What Not to Do.” Further NovelReads’ use of your words does not impair the marketability of your original work. Acceptable uses are “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.” NovelReads is a blogger who used your own words for criticism, comment and possibly even teaching. Fair use, as your lawyer must know since she references federal copyright law, allows for copyrighted content to be used without permission according to Section 107 of the U.S. I’m sure your lawyer explained to you the concept of “fair use” and you simply choose to ignore such advice and told the lawyer to go ahead and make the accusation of infringement. Laurie will be forced to take appropriate action. Laurie’s website, (which states that “No part of this website may be directly copied or duplicated and all of the content herein is copyright protected.” These quotes you have posted to your blog should be immediately removed or Ms. There is and has been an existing disclaimer on Ms. In this posting you excerpt from a website that is copyright protected, thus violating federal copyright law. First, you argue that the comments that the blogger excerpted from your own website (which you subsequently deleted but Google preserved for all time) are somehow unacceptable infringement. I understand that you have had a lawyer send out a cease and desist and takedown letter to a romance blogger based on two things. Jane Book Reviews bloggers-rights / Fair Use / Intellectual Property Issues / lawsuits 134 Comments AugVictoria Laurie Sends Blogger Threats from a Lawyer

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